Reviews

★ The Centaur’s Wife

In her 2020 non-fiction book, Disfigured, writer Amanda Leduc explored the powerful, near-subliminal force of fairy tales, in particular “how the allure and the potency of these stories has continued to influence the perceptions of ... Read More »

January 7, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Natural Killer

By Harriet Alida Lye

Somewhere deep and secret in the body, a cell divides, and then each copy divides again. The growth is exponential, each new generation doubling the one that came before; soon it will be more than ... Read More »

January 4, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

A Family Affair

By Nadine Bismuth; Russell Smith; trans.

Montreal author Nadine Bismuth’s previous works established her ability to artfully pick apart the intricacies of relationships. Notably, her 2009 short-story collection, Êtes-vous mariée à un psychopathe? (which was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary ... Read More »

December 17, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Forgotten Work

By Jason Guriel

Trolling Twitter, I find a quote from poet Kay Ryan on Jason Guriel’s feed: “When I started writing nobody rhymed – it was in utter disrepute. Yet rhyme was a siren to me.” Forgotten Work, ... Read More »

December 14, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada

By Samir Shaheen-Hussain

Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s Fighting for a Hand to Hold explores how a policy in Quebec disallowing Indigenous parents to accompany their sick children on medevac flights resulted in significant, actively constructed barriers to care. These barriers ... Read More »

December 14, 2020 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Consent

By Annabel Lyon

At first it seems like a mistake, or a moment of authorial laziness. The opening sentences in Annabel Lyon’s third novel for adults contain what appears to be a series of unconscious repetitions: “The baby ... Read More »

December 10, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey through a World Suspended

By Ethan Lou

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended everything we know. Isolation, fear, and confusion reign; for many, the world no longer makes any sense. Journalist Ethan Lou’s non-fiction debut serves as one possible map for this fog ... Read More »

December 10, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

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By Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer mixed Arab poet working out of Montreal. Their work to date has sought to open up explorations of queerness, family, culture, and diaspora, and of the strange process ... Read More »

December 7, 2020 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Stoop City

By Kristyn Dunnion

What an assured and attractively variegated collection of stories. Set in Toronto and small-town southern Ontario, Kristyn Dunnion’s 13 short pieces are marvellous feats of pacing and styling bolstered by vibrant characterization and enviable turns ... Read More »

December 7, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

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